I learned my lesson

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Thankfully, Off_Target is OK. It looks like your compressor got damaged too. All of the Xin Yong Shi and Tuxing gold filters have much deeper threads and 8mm thick side walls. Looking at your photos, was the failure point only where the cap threads failed? There is damage to the side walls of this filter. Was that a result of pieces from the cap blowing off or was there also rupture of the side walls? 

It appears that the filter you got is unbranded. It's very troubling to see knock offs of knock offs. A new buyer can do a search for a name brand and this garbage also comes up. It's nearly impossible for someone who's never seen a filter in person to know that what they bought is a cheap imitation of a properly designed original. Scary stuff.


 
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God has been good to you Off_target ... a few inches this way, or that way, and the results could have been truly tragic. Yes, sometimes life does get complicated and it's usually only in hindsight that we understand how close we have come to death because when it happens we are caught up in the moment. Life will humble you as you walk through it, as it has me, as we witness the grace and goodness of God. As John the Baptist confessed, "He must increase and I must decrease" and that is as it should be. God has an extravagant love for you, the dimensions of which are boundless.

May you be whole in mind, body and spirit

Shalom aleichem

John
 
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Hog dog you're lucky. Looks like it blew the top and took off like a rocket through your welding cart. You got to wonder the same about these "CE" and "ISO" CF tanks. Glad you learned your lesson because $150 'aint worth your life let alone costs of the damages dang!

You might want to give Nuvair a call: https://www.nuvair.com/personal-filter-din.html

What a epic disaster dang. You got to wonder about these compressors too and when a YH stage 1/stage 2 might give up the ghost and you end up with a crank case and crank case cover through your chest with hot oil everywhere because the Tuxing gold dumped all that pressure. Wonder if the safe way would be to put a check valve between the compressor and the filter.

I am glad you're safe. HPA isn't something to mess around with and cut enough corners and the corners might end up cutting you!
 
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how about a “warning” sub forum, where posts like these can be placed. Fill whip fittings that blow apart, using oils with petroleum products in the air tube, the list goes on. A new guy getting into this hobby can benefit right away from the warnings shared by others.
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Sounds like a very good idea. Almost like the "Shake Hands with Danger" series on YouTube. Might be some legal stuff that needs to be added because of litigation but certainly could fall under PCP Safety Advice. Just would need to keep it clear of non-safety items such as compressor failure. I think what your suggesting is a fantastic idea and I would contribute. With hand pumping it's not so much of an issue but when we get into HPA and compressors the knowledge to glean is huge.
 
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I will be honest about what I think and worry about PCP guns fill rating of over 4000psi. In fact when filled to over 2000psi.

These regulated guns kinda scares me because what if the regulator totally fails is the gun itself internals beefed up enough since you are effectively shouldering the hammer and spring behind the end cap power adjuster screw pointed right at your face.

Imagine removing the regulator then filling it to its 300BAR (4300psi) factory fill rating. When that valve buckles that cannons pointed right at your face when shouldering the gun.

Hope that aftermarket hammer spring adjuster wasn't wobbly threading in!!!
 
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Plz post MANY detailed pictures to see what exactly yours look like so everyone can know what the knockoff looks like b4 they use theirs and not blow up and DIE.
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I was just thinking the same thing on the pictures. I have a Tuxing I purchased off Amazon and it looks to be thick wall just like Centercut's. 



I found this video a while back. Not a bad watch.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUywUv_UEG0
 
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I found the above video interesting. I think that the method for measuring the tensile strength of the metal may have been a little dodgy because I don't think that he used the diameter of the inside of the vessel in his equation. Nevertheless, I think that his point is valid. The wall thickness ratio of that black filter seems similar to the one that the op had the end blow off. I own one of those Airmega branded black filters and mine has a 7.5 mm wall thickness, so it looks like there is a knockoff version of them out there as well. Either that or the manufacturer of them has decided to scrimp on costs and risk people's lives to save a few pennies. Buyers beware.
 
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Thanks for posting your experience.It could not have been better timing for me.I recently purchased all of the components to fill my tanks- YH compressor, tuxing gold filter,fill hoses, the rarus oil .Coincidentally I even had it mounted on a welding cart.My plan was to crank it up today and test it out.After reading your post I checked my filter and it appears to be the thick tubing with the long threads.However your experience gave me a serious reminder of how potentially dangerous HPA can be.My original plan was to use the fill station in my game room but now it will be located elsewhere and I will add some type barrier around it and use extreme caution when operating it (as in defusing a bomb).From your pics there is no doubt in my mind that if you had been leaning your head over the top of the filter when the cap failed it would have killed you.Your post probably saved some folks from some serious injury or even their lives.Thank you.-You might consider changing your username to Lucky!
 
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